Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Our Silhouette Family

I have seen soooo many beautiful silhouette projects in blogland lately. Last year I made silhouette ornaments of my munchkins, and when we get out our Christmas boxes I'll do a post on those too. Recently I've been inspired by all the gorgeous ones I've seen over on This Blessed Nest.

Last night I made my own Silhouette Family arrangement.

(sorry for the funny angled pictures, but I was TRYING to avoid glare on the glass. Oh well.)

I used the same process that I used to make my ornaments last Christmas.

I know there are easier ways out there, but I don't have any of that fancy photo editing software.

1. I took profile pictures of everyone. This was not an easy task with my 1 1/2 year old.

Nevertheless, we got through it! Hubs helped take mine.

2. I took some super small, fine point scissors to cut out the profiles.

3. I used a black marker to completely cover the head.

4. Then I used some Mod Podge to attach the heads to the page. I used old dictionary pages as my background. I picked the page that each person's name was on in the dictionary.

It's a small detail, but I just wanted to do it that way.

5. Then I put each picture in the frame (that I got for 50% off at Michaels! Yay for coupons!)